Aaron DoughtyAwareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, LLC · Spiritual Teacher and Educator

Let Your Body Do The Healing

21 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Aaron Doughty explains breathwork as a method for releasing stored physical and emotional energy. He uses an animal analogy—comparing a gazelle escaping a cheetah, which expends excess energy before rejoining the herd—to illustrate how bodies naturally discharge intense energy. Doughty argues that humans tend to suppress and carry such energy, leading to shame and various manifestations. Breathwork, he claims, helps restore the body's natural rhythm by allowing this trapped energy to flow out, facilitating healing.

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Breathwork is a powerful way of releasing energy that gets stored inside of the body. Animals, like if a gazelle gets chased by a cheetah, what'll happen is if it escapes the cheetah before it goes back into the herd, what it'll do is it'll literally spaz the heck out before it goes back into the herd so it doesn't bring that energy back. Us as humans, we tend to store the energy. We suppress it, we push it down, we carry it with us. We are ashamed of it. We try not to show it, but it comes through in different ways. So the power of breathwork is we allow ourselves to get back to our natural rhythm.